Questions:
Are there any alternatives to using CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER & CURLOPT_USERPWD for supplying Basic Authentication for cURL PHP?
I have a super long password, so CURLOPT_USERPWD wont work as it truncates at 256 characters.
curl_setopt($data, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);
And I would like to stay away from using CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER for security reasons.
curl_setopt($data, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($username . ":" . $password));
Any alternatives?
How to&Answers:
What makes you think CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER is disabled for security reasons?
It accepts an array rather than a string. Try this instead:
curl_setopt($data, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
array(
"Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($username . ":" . $password)
));
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